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Nrrs. TATES PAENT FEE,

J AKOB SCHMID, OF BASLE, SWITZERLAND, ASSIGNOR TO SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN BASLE, OF SAME PLACE.

BLUE TETRAZO DYE AND PROCESS OF MAKlNG $AME..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,369, dated February 28," 1899.

Application filed July 2, 1898. Serial No. 685,005 (Spec linens.)

To all whom it may concern:

.Ile it known that I, J AKOB SCHMID, chemist and doctor of philosophy, a citizen of the Swiss Republic, and a resident of Basic, Switzerland, have invented certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Blue Tetrazo Dyes, of which the following is a clear and complete specification.

My invention relates to vthe production of blue substantive dyestuffs, distinguished by the brightness of their tints, by first combining molecular proportions of naphthacetoldisulfo-acid and of the tetrazo derivative of a paradiamin of the series of diphenyl and then combining one molecule of a not further diazotizable intermediate product thus obtained with one molecule of an amidonaphtholsulfoacid.

Example: 2.12 parts of tolidin are diazotized in the normal manner by means of 5.5 parts of hydrochloric acid and 4.6 parts of a thirty-per-cent. solution of sodium nitrite. The solution of the tetrazo body thus obtained is introduced into a cold aqueous solution of 3.6 parts of 1:813:13 naphthacetoldisulfo-acid (prepared as described in another application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 685,00t, filed July 2, 1898,) containing an excess of sodium carbonate or sodium acetate.- The intermediate product separates in the form of a dark mass. As soon as the free tetrazo body has disappeared there is introduced into the mass parts of amidonaphtholdisult'o-acid 1 :8 :3 :6, and the formation of the coloring-matter is efiiected by agitating the mixture for some hours and then heating to the boiling-point. The coloring-matter is precipitated by common salt, filtered, pressed, and dried. In this example the 1 :8:3 :6 naphthacetoldisulfo-acid may be replaced by the 1:8:4z6, 1:8:2z-l, or 1:5:327 naphthacetoldisulfo-acid, and for tolidin benzidin or dianisidin may be substit-uted,while the 1 :8 :3 :6 amidonaphtholdisulfo acid may be replaced by 118:2:1, 1:5;23 :7, or 118:4:6 amidonaphtholdisu1fo-acid or 2 2S1; or 1 :8 :6 amidonaphtholmono-acid.

The new coloring-matter forms in dry state a bronze-like powder, insoluble in alcohol,

ether, and benzene, soluble in water with a blue coloration, and in concentrated sulfuric acid with a green-blue to blue-green coloration. It dyes unmordanted cotton in blue to greenish-blue tints of great purity and contains only one diaz'otizable amido group, and consequently absorbs on diazotization only one molecular proportion of nitrous acid. By diazotizing the ooloring-1natter in substance or on the fiber and combining the diazo body thus obtained with beta-naphthol or metaphenylendiamin it yields trisazo coloring-matters with a variation in tint to dark blue.

- What I claim is 1. The process for the manufacture of blue coloring-matters by first combining molecular proportions of a naphthaceteldisulfo-acid and the tetrazo derivative of a paradiamin of the series of diphenyl, then combining one molecule of the intermediate product thus obtained with one molecule of an amidonaphtholsulfo-acid.

2. Asa new article of manufacture, the herein-described blue coloring-matter, which contains the radical of a naphthacetoldisulfoacid, forms in dry state a dark bronze-like powder, soluble in water with a blue coloration, and in concentrated sulfuric acid. with a green-blue to blue-green coloration, is insoluble in alcohol, other and benzene, contains only one diazotinable amido group,

therefore enabled to react only with one molecular proportion of nitrous acid, and gives dark-blue tints by combination of its diazo derivative with beta-naphthol or metaphenylendiamin, eitherin substance or on the fiber.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 18th day of June, 1898, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAKOB SGl'lMID.

Witnesses:

Gnome Gtruoin), Aniline ltrrrnu. 

